monica's formula one grand prix while activists try to make their voices heard against all the odds plus. worried about the kids my kids their friends live in those parmenides those houses we don't know about them. as the search for survivors continues after the deadly explosion that a fertilizer plant in texas concerns grow over public safety violations and america's crumbling industrial infrastructure and venezuela's election council agrees to partially audit presidential vote results just hours before we just mature road is sworn in. so i welcome you watching our take with me andrew farmer will start with our

developing story reports are coming in that a suspect in the bombing of the boston marathon has been detained it follows a large ongoing police operation in the watertown area of the city that was launched after the killing of a police officer at the massachusetts institute of technology f.b.i. agents and members of the national guard are involved in the massive money manhunt along with hundreds of police officers each are live pictures we're looking at the moment they've been going door to door searching for another suspect now reports say explosives and a pressure cooker have also been discovered similar to the one used in the bombing of the marathon a specialist police unit is on site and local residents are relieved to remain indoors and stay away from the wind. when all of this comes after the f.b.i. released images of two suspects in monday's marathon bombing twin blasts killed three and injured more than one hundred seventy people officials say they are relying. on the public so you help identify the legislator to try it is he seeing

carrying rucksacks believed contained improvised explosives the white house has to make sure everyone responsible for the worst terror attack in the u.s. since nine eleven is brought to account. in the boston bombing was cited as a pretext when the u.s. congress passed a controversial bill that many say that puts digital freedoms under fire the cyber intelligence sharing and protection that would allow private firms to share the personal data of web users with u.s. government agencies but the white house has hinted it may block the legislation which it feels doesn't address public concerns about the invasion of privacy america andrew blake is following the control to see. for the white house actually said that we will recommend the president veto this legislation. for sharing of protection act it's come under a lot of criticism by its opponents because they say that it does more than what

the authors say it does that the authors of cispa they say that this bill will let business is private companies google facebook and any internet provider these companies will be encouraged to share information with the federal government that will be used to track down and monitor and curb cyber attacks aimed at the united states computers critics say it puts too much of americans privacy at risk and that the right safeguards aren't there so even turn people would be separate facing their privacy for a little bit of security when the bill was introduced back in february i believe one of the areas for the second time representative or one of the authors of the bill he said you know we can't have another nine eleven we can't have another terrorist attack it but if we do we will pass any law that needs to happen sure enough to another congressman he actually got up and said well look what happened in boston these were bombs sure they weren't digital bombs but the next ones will be digital bombs so we need to come together for the sake of now. security there is

something and that's exactly why a lot of people have problems with this bill because the people who are touting it the people who are writing it are people that don't really understand the cyber security concerns and there's a lot of concern over who is coming up with this bill who is supporting it and what they actually know about cyber security. incident this morning saying that your boss would be reason enough to pass the cyber security bill as well football to many people. the united states is going through turbulent times this week as we report later this hour the search operation for dozens of people continues in texas after a violent explosion at a fertilizer plant ripped apart the time of west. clashes have erupted in bahrain ahead of sunday's formula one grand prix police fired tear gas to disperse protesters in isolated areas across the country earlier two teenagers were sentenced to ten years in prison a murder legit tortured before they confessed to attacking police during anti

government riots human rights watch also says master police officers detained twenty opposition activists last week in towns near the f one circuit without a warrant the government denies it's discriminating against its own people but anti regime protesters say the state is on the path to becoming a soon dictatorship arraign is home to the us is fifth fleet and he's racked by almost daily violence where even doctors are arrested for helping injured protesters let's take a closer look at some of the figures put out by amnesty international since twenty eleven clashes between authorities and demonstrators have seen seventy two people killed on both sides the number of arrests made last year of those participating in rallies top one thousand and on top of that at least eighty children under eighteen are being held in adult prisons that tory's for their torture interrogations yet the bahraini government labors hard to improve its image it recently spent over thirty two million dollars on public relations. and it is impossible to talk

about bahrain's protest movement without mentioning. he who he was the nation's leading human rights defender his work as an activist cost him a lengthy prison sentence last year for participating in illegal gatherings the term was later reduced but the verdict intense criticism both from bahrain's western allies as well as many human rights groups nabila jobs been an outspoken supporter of the demonstrations calling on the country's ruling monica to stop widespread abuses and start reforms to bring the bahraini protest movement to the media forefront the activists met the world's top with june the son to interview the job just before he was arrested artie's party boy can i reports on their encounter. not long before his imprisonment bahrain's most famous human rights campaigner was in london talking to another prominent activist and whistleblower

julian a sandwich so we came here to london's ecuadorian embassy which the wiki leaks founder has been calling home for some ten months now in order to have a chat about the man at the forefront of bahrain's pro-democracy struggle i began by asking afghans why he was so keen to invite me over job for an interview on his exclusive r.t. show britain has one hundred thousand people. he has one hundred fifty thousand twitter followers prize predominantly. the population of earth. sincere to receive a number of activists in a brain spring two thousand never read job. trying to present to the brain so wright was the most prominent voice for the brain spread speaking to julian assange over job was unequivocal about his determination to fight for democracy in bahrain if you have a goal and if you believed just. because you

wanted to be one of those. difficulties and you know that the changes that you were fighting for it's been good four hundred years is not an easy thing to change. those changes you have to be willing to pay a price and my price might be you would live for to be over a job that price has become is freedom three months after that interview was that he was sentenced to three years behind bars but according to a staunch keeping him in prison on the current charges is going to be increasingly difficult for the bahraini government. cartoonish form of despotism where he's been sentenced to three years imprisonment for a number of tweets relation to your personal stories to the prime minister and so on as well as organizing protests he even when he was imprisoned

briefly released he did not resign when he took the same standard for criticizing you for a t.v. it's hard for the people with that much coverage you can. become. so i think it's long term prospects are quite good amnesty international have labeled him a prisoner of conscience but unless the international community. he wakes up to abuses in bahrain there's little hope that maybe over jobs going to be tasting freedom any time soon. see london's ecuadorian embassy. site used to work closely with the be all about job when he headed the bahrain center for human rights he told my colleague the banknorth see that even though being an activist in bahrain is obviously dangerous jobs followers are ready to take up his banner. we come into the market get this in history look at easy don't take your kid to get their shit behind and i thought i'm going to even myself

it was innocent either take the piss out and the thing that did this. by itself is that if you think that you would continue with your. activity you will be highly able to see that bill ridge up in prison are you allowed to visit him as his friend what does he say i mean does he want to continue his fight and how do you assess amid all the people who want to bring change to the country he did not stay silent and even here when he is in jail right now right now he's in jail and is to go get a body but i still wish you'd behave and sending a message to the one hundred people give your man to man can you do to him but i'd support maybe what was decided to continue his abuse for. activities he would continue to speak out about the get what i put a shame in and behave and he will continue and he is always

a good thing with me and when i get what i can get this and music out of us. to continue the struggle to get did you just be god about the heat but i still wish you could get a jet they could not say the same at all the good did you. peacefully protest voting for democracy i said just. the people are going to get the shit did you go to easy thats why it we would be out of what did he do with you know that what he had to be added later on but we were we will let you get more proceeded to give up your seat with me and give it to did my good deed with that outlet. and we will be closely following the unrest in the turbulent gulf kingdom in the coming days and in the meantime you can always check out our website at r.t. telkom to find out more about an appeal to jab on the history of the bahraini protest movement. on the way the struggle for independence profits we report on how

a territorial dispute between kurds and iraq's central government is being further afield by foster oil reserves in the country's north pole the details coming up shortly. after clear image of iraq after inflation. twenty day taxi trip through the country. the road full of. clear evidence from north to south. the roots of iraqi tragedy. after the war waiting for peace. talks e r t. c good laboratory tim curry was able to build a new most sophisticated robot which will unfortunately doesn't give

a darn about anything tim's mission to teach music creation why it should care about humans and world this is why you should care only on the dog. hello again re fate of dozens of people is still unknown in texas where a search and rescue mission continues for victims the violent explosion that ripped apart the town of west fifteen people are believed to have died and more than one hundred sixty were injured when a fertilizer plant exploded on wednesday night artie's among the lindo reports now from the same. several police departments from around texas cordoned off

a large area around the fertilizer plant which exploded last night at about seven thirty local time now i just came back from one of the local hospitals which admittedly nearly one hundred people who were injured in the explosion last night overall we know that more than one hundred sixty people were hurt in the blast right now there have been come for unpaid teles however we haven't gotten a new casualty count recently given the fact that this is still a search and rescue mission we do speak to one woman earlier who was slightly wounded during the explosion she lived in the vicinity of the blast her family was ok but so many of her friends she did not know the whereabouts swayed about the kids my kids their friends live in those apartments those houses we don't know about them we don't know about some of the fathers or friends if so what happened

during school hours i mean it's still bad but if the kids were in school and it's real close by some of the first responders digging through the rubble this morning still hoping to find survivors in a neighborhood which has been described as a war zone i can tell you i was there i walked through the blast area i searched some houses earlier tonight massive just like iraq just like the murray building in oklahoma city same kind of exploded so you can imagine what kind of damage we're looking out there. i know there was at least seventy five to fifty fifty to seventy five houses damaged there's a partner complex that has about fifty units in it that was completely. just skeleton standing investigation is still underway for the root cause meanwhile the police and firefighters are still searching the rubble near the fertilizer plant. the blast has caused many to question whether by sikh industrial safety regulations

all being ignored in the united states for example the plant reported that he did only around twenty four kilograms of anhydrous ammonia follistim the twenty tons that had believed to be ignited and reported that there were no fire risks or explosive risks the worst possible scenario is in visit was a ten minute release of the many gas but with x. and casualties this blog is around eighty kilometers away resulting in a rising number of injuries and deaths professor dr jeffrey pattison from the school of medicine at wisconsin university believes that lax federal regulation might be to blame for the tragedy there's been this montreaux that we have to deregulate we have to take away regulations so business can thrive and obviously we see examples like this or fukushima for example where when we do that we suffer the consequences in the end and so i think and we're seeing it with the

environmental protection agency today where they are probably getting new regulations if there is a mother to push a lurcher noble that world all of the clean up to be a much more lax than it currently is and not force people to be moved out of the area because of radiation damage so there's this tremendous move. to to deregulate things to take away the powers of the e.p.a. and other regulatory agencies and i think that sort of we're seeing now that that's a very dangerous precedent. the blast which devastated a local missing home and school has highlighted the issue of the country's multibillion dollar investment priorities. reports it's no secret that the crumbling infrastructure in the u.s. is considered one of the largest dangers to national security over the past four years if not more of the american society for civil engineers has given the greed

d. plus to america's infrastructure that is an indication underscores how how most of the bridges the tunnels the airports the levees that list goes on and on are so decrepit and the problem is is that washington is not investing its resources into rebuilding america's infrastructure while over the past ten plus years america has invested hundreds of billions of dollars into surveillance systems into the department of homeland security into c.c.t.v. cameras and systems of facial recognition they do that under the auspices of keeping american safe they have neglected to invest. the money that is necessary to build up america's infrastructure and that infrastructure extends to the amount of inspectors that are available to go into facilities such as the fertilizer facility that exploded in texas in west texas and examine it and to make sure the proper

repairs are taking place there's not enough funding that seeing allocated to you to have the proper means for the infrastructure of the u.s. be it rebuild it or be it you know making sure that it's up to par look it could be taxes that we're talking about at this moment or last month we were talking about the oil spill in arkansas or last year we're talking about new york and new jersey in the tri state area and going dark because of hurricane sandy or the year before that when we're talking about other failures of infrastructure being bridges collapsing on. or pipes exploding this is a situation that's considered the biggest danger to national security and it's a danger it's a situation that most environmentalists and engineers say that officials in washington are ignoring. now back to our developing story reports are coming in that a suspect in the bombing of the boston marathon has been detained follows

a large ongoing police operation in the water time area of the city it was launched after the killing of a police officer at the massachusetts institute of technology f.b.i. agents and members of the national guard are involved in the large scale manhunt along with hundreds of police officers going door to door searching for another suspect police warn that he's armed and dangerous reports say explosives have also been recovered along with a pressure cooker similar to the ones used in the marathon bombing specialist police unit is on site and local residents are being urged to remain indoors and stay away from the window use. for his wireless electoral body has announced an audit of the remaining votes just hours before the swearing in of the country's president elect nicolas maduro is now a victory over an opposition rival hungry as has split the country right down the middle sparking large scale demonstrations cilla now reports from caracas first of

all ready fifty four percent of the votes have been audited the day after the election so this is just completing it making it one hundred percent audit and the electoral committee had come out saying that it agreed to that it offered that to the opposition and we kick up the business council who had been staunchly calling for first of all full recount and an audit and a couple of us had come out and give it a press conference and said he accepts this offer and so it's a he says they want to be part of the process essentially supervising this process but let's make a differentiation with the manual vote counting the counting the votes again one by one now this group. just as the chief had already come out and said that this was not possible and said that anyone with thought this was possible had been deceived because the a system electoral system here is fully automated therefore a manual vote counting would not be possible as far as the inauguration ceremony is concerned it's still going on everything scheduled will go on as planned security has been stepped up across the city in hotels where dignitaries are are going to be

staying in some countries about more than a dozen have already said that they will be sending a high level delegation so that still is going ahead but also there will be a military parade during the day after the announcement of the elections you know that emotions have been running high so we did see street protests they did get quite violent the government said that about seven people had died in those election tensions but people are still very hyped up about you all to the election but so far everything that has been planned for the nineteenth of april here in venezuela seems to be going ahead. of me going to smuggle. at least twenty seven people have been killed in a suicide bombing in baghdad in the latest spate of violence ahead of provincial elections on saturday and the sectarian tension rises across iraq pushing for independence despite strong objections from the central government the conflicts being further few by the massive oil deposits in the country's north which both sides wish to claim and exploit the caffein off.

they call them those who face death gone once guerrilla rebels fighting saddam for an independent kurdistan now an officially sanctioned force in iraq's semi autonomous kurdish region the peshmerga and the iraqi troops are supposed to be on the same side after all they're citizens of one country but for more than a year now here in northern iraq the two armies have been pitted against each other their weapons locked and loaded these peshmerga soldiers are on alert twenty four hours a day they're guarding the kurdish front line of the so-called disputed territory now no iraq the soldiers are allowed beyond this point if either army advances if there's even a single misfire it could spark a new war. it's a war the peshmerga is ready for. we have enough forces in place and enough firepower for the peshmerga to defend against any surprises if for

attacks of course we will retaliate at the heart of the disputed territory is cure kuku which both baghdad and the kurds say belongs to them the program code group. it's like a small version of iraq with sunni shia christians arabs and kurds it's this view that because. but of course the other reason is kook's oil. the oil fires illustrate the main reason that this land is so hotly contested kirkuk a sitting on an estimated ten billion barrels of oil and is responsible for a large chunk of iraq's current output that's enough to sustain an independent state should the kurds get their way and annex this disputed territory it's also enough to bankrupt iraq if the oil revenue is lost. that revenue makes up ninety five percent of iraq's annual budget of more than one hundred billion dollars and there's a lot more money at stake the international energy agency says iraq could export

a staggering five truly. in dollars worth of oil over the next two decades the kurds and the central government are supposed to share these profits but they haven't been able to sort out how. the oil line guys it is all iraqi people. are having to buy calls to sion but no no there is no we'll solve acceptable and standing between all iraqis on the revenue sharing this is the key problem. or oil has transformed kurdistan into a boom town and the capital of our bill construction projects dot the landscape there are luxury malls and foreign investors are flocking here in the region looks and feels like a different country and for the kurds that may be the ultimate goal but for now this is one iraq divided into two. you have facial between. iraqi military and. could just a minute and when you have

a situation like this you cause tension and if something goes wrong we can lead to . actual fight between the two sides. blood for oil it's a scenario that no one in iraq wants to see but the army's remain in place each side carefully watching the other kurd versus arab iraqi versus iraqi lucy catherine of r t reporting from the disputed territories in iraq. and we will stay in the volatile state just ahead a decade after the u.s. led invasion of iraq we take you want to trip across the country back taxi is next here not saying it's.

i reckon cardiologist dr omar al claims that the war in iraq destroyed iraq's environment even worse than dropping the bomb on hiroshima did dr al kooper he see puts to data that the number of pressed cancer cases has grown in the country from fifteen to thirty times cases of congenital heart disease have become fifteen times more frequent case of leukemia have increased thirty fold the doctor puts the blame on the weapons used in the one thousand nine hundred one and two thousand and three invasions of iraq and which nato forces used white phosphorus depleted uranium rounds and other toxic gases and poisonous substances human rights watch and the world health organization have measured radiation levels in iraq and consider many places in iraq even some very far from the fighting to be contaminated naturally radiation is not racist and foreign soldiers in iraq are not immune usa today even published research results that found that depleted uranium was indeed in the lungs

and other organs of navy vets who filed for health compensation claims yet you know saddam hussein seemed like a pretty bad guy but there are always ways to get around the confines of a dictatorship but there is no way to escape from radiation it is truly a present for the invasions of iraq and good for the iraqis well it doesn't seem to be doing too good for their physical health but that's just my opinion. and this is. pretty free school which is free. free. free. free. free books. for your. c.e.o. down to our.